...until a finger's width of it comes out of its nostril, and the wick is a lump at its bottom. If it is like this, fine; otherwise, they let it go. Letting it go means slitting the edges of its tongue. It is not known if it is afraid of its mother saying, "The bull has turned on the dog with its horns." They say, "Let the tongue go." But he omitted the second part, indicating it. He thought the bull's horn entered the dog's mouth. This man is like that.

In a thicket, the wild ass circles. The thicket is dense, intertwined trees. The bull grazes in a circle, as if it were the wild ass that has been afflicted by the gadfly, which is a green fly that enters its nose, causing it to twist and circle. It is possible that this description applies to the dog, and it is more like it than being struck. He said, "It is like a man."

And I rode on a swift horse, its face like a palm frond, spread out. The swift horse is the one that is long-legged, slender-bellied, and has little flesh. It is rarely said of a male horse that it is swift. And his saying "its face like a palm frond" means its forehead is like a palm frond. This description is not accurate, because the eye was a defect, which is the darkness. And the beauty of it is that the forelock is like a gathered, short mane. The gathered mane is the thickest part of the mane, and the spread-out is scattered. And his saying "and I rode" refers to his saying "and I went at dawn."

...a hoof like a wooden bowl. It has a fetlock. What is on the horse's leg, its fetlock, is heavy and unsteady. The fetlock is what is between...